The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1344 - Member Of The ‘Party Of Science’ Doesn’t Know What The Moon Is

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, a prominent congresswoman and former member of the House

00:00:03.420 Science Committee revealed this week that she doesn't know what the moon is. And somehow that's 1.00

00:00:07.840 not even the worst of it. Also, Joe Biden comes up with a new scheme to buy votes by forgiving

00:00:12.140 student loans. Scotland's new hate crime law goes into effect and already the system is overloaded

00:00:16.960 with hate crime complaints. Plus, Ben Affleck's non-binary daughter debuts her new identity

00:00:21.600 at her grandfather's funeral. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:44.960 You know, there's a lot we can say about our political leaders. Are they corrupt? Yes. Are

00:01:49.780 they power-hungry? Yes. Are they a bunch of evil, soulless goblins? Yes. But what may be most

00:01:56.040 significant, the trait that may have the most bearing on the future of our country, is that 1.00

00:01:59.820 they are, by and large, also extremely stupid. I mean, there is little doubt that we are right 1.00

00:02:05.040 now led by the dumbest collection of muddle-headed morons that has ever been assembled in our nation's 1.00

00:02:10.120 capital or any nation's capital. It's difficult to overstate just how monstrously stupid these 1.00

00:02:15.740 people are. And if you doubt that, then please consider this video of Democrat Representative 1.00

00:02:21.240 Sheila Jackson Lee. And before I play the video, you should understand a few things about Sheila

00:02:26.340 Jackson Lee. The first is that she is a former member of the Science Committee. The second is

00:02:31.680 that she is also a former member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee. And the third is that she is,

00:02:37.200 once again, a sitting member of Congress. And in that position, she gave an address on Monday to

00:02:41.880 students from Booker T. Washington High School. And this address happened on the occasion of the

00:02:46.360 eclipse. In fact, and this is not really the stupid part. Well, it's not the really stupid part, 0.98

00:02:50.700 but it is a stupid part. She claims that she, as she put it on Twitter, created the opportunity 1.00

00:02:57.260 for the students to see the eclipse. Lee tweeted, quote,

00:03:00.840 Today I created the opportunity to see a unique science and solar experience for the students at

00:03:05.080 Booker T. Washington High School. As a former member of the Science Committee and a former ranking

00:03:09.260 member of the Space and Aeronautics Committee, this was an irreplaceable moment in history.

00:03:14.360 There should be more opportunities to introduce science to our diverse and vulnerable communities.

00:03:18.160 So many students came out to see history for themselves. Many remarked that this is the

00:03:22.420 first time I've ever seen anything like this, and they made their way to the field.

00:03:27.160 Despite over 90% of Booker T's students being economically disadvantaged, it has managed to

00:03:32.100 build an enthusiastic environment where students are excited to explore the wonders of space and

00:03:36.300 exploration. The hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity. Now, there's enough in those

00:03:43.000 few sentences alone to assess that Sheila Jackson Lee has approximately the IQ of a toothpick. For one

00:03:48.580 thing, she's somehow taking credit for the eclipse. She seems to be suggesting that these young people

00:03:54.460 would not have been able to look up at the sky and view this celestial event if not for her

00:04:01.220 intervention. So by gathering, you know, with the kids and pointing at the sky and saying,

00:04:07.360 hey, check it out, she is apparently creating the opportunity to look at the sky. Without her,

00:04:13.900 they would never have thought to look at the sky. They wouldn't know how to look at the sky without

00:04:17.360 her. Second, she seems to be, she seems to chide us for not giving more opportunities to diverse and

00:04:23.580 vulnerable communities to view events like this. But she doesn't explain how we're supposed to create

00:04:29.800 opportunities for diverse communities to see an eclipse in the sky during times when there is no eclipse in

00:04:36.200 the sky. I mean, it only happens once every several years. What are we supposed to do about that? I guess

00:04:41.760 we could invite diverse communities to come outside once a month and then, like, put our hands in front

00:04:46.160 of their faces to sort of simulate the effect of an eclipse, but I'm not sure what that would achieve.

00:04:51.360 Sheila Jackson Lee doesn't really elaborate. And third, as further evidence of her toothpick IQ,

00:04:56.000 she says, the hallmark of this excitement is anchored in opportunity. Now, I want to be very clear,

00:05:01.940 this statement means absolutely nothing. There is no way to make sense of that sentence.

00:05:06.200 There is no meaning we can really glean from it. I think that maybe what she's trying to say

00:05:10.640 is that the kids were excited for the opportunity to watch the eclipse,

00:05:14.560 which Sheila Jackson Lee had somehow created by some unspecified means. But the phrase anchored

00:05:20.380 in opportunity is at best clunky and unnecessarily wordy. And the phrase, the hallmark of this excitement

00:05:27.920 is just incredibly dumb. And together they make kind of a dumb sandwich. In fact, Sheila Jackson Lee, 1.00

00:05:33.820 we can tell from this alone, is the dumbest kind of dumb person. She's the exact inverse 1.00

00:05:40.220 of the smartest kind of smart person. Because we know the smartest kind of smart person is somebody

00:05:45.620 who understands complex topics, but talks about them in simple ways using simple words. 0.99

00:05:52.080 And on the other end of that spectrum is the dumbest dumb person who tries to use unnecessarily 0.99

00:05:57.960 big words to communicate simple ideas, but doesn't understand the words they're using. And so they 1.00

00:06:03.040 don't manage to effectively convey even the simplest idea. So by all that evidence alone, we already know

00:06:08.120 that Sheila Jackson Lee is a momentous moron. But it's about to get so much worse. At this event, 0.99

00:06:15.580 before somehow in an unclear way providing kids the opportunity to look at the sky,

00:06:20.260 she addressed the crowd of students and gave them a little lesson in astronomy.

00:06:25.980 Unfortunately, though, she has an understanding of astronomy that is so garbled, confused, and

00:06:30.540 delusional that my four-year-old daughter could easily fact check her. Here's what she said.

00:06:37.420 And sometimes you've heard the word full moon. Sometimes you need to take the opportunity just

00:06:42.840 to come out and see a full moon is that complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases.

00:06:49.120 And that's why the question is why or how could we as humans live on the moon? Are the gases such

00:06:58.460 that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful heat that is almost impossible to go near the sun.

00:07:09.460 The moon is more manageable. And you will see in a moment, or not a moment, you'll see in a couple

00:07:16.940 of years that NASA is going back to the moon. So this is a sitting congresswoman who has been a

00:07:25.300 member of the science committee and the space committee saying that the moon is made up mostly

00:07:31.540 of gases. And she then juxtaposes the moon with the sun, which she says has a mighty powerful heat,

00:07:37.560 while the moon is, quote, more manageable. So she appears to believe not only that the moon is a

00:07:44.000 gaseous entity, but also that it gives off its own light and heat. She very much appears to believe

00:07:50.480 that the moon is basically a much dimmer, cooler version of the sun. So she thinks we have like

00:07:55.460 the night sun and the day sun. And why is it darker at night? Because the night sun is dimmer.

00:08:03.780 And I'm not exaggerating and trying to be funny here. That is really what she actually believes.

00:08:07.640 And it is needless to say, hopefully needless to say, completely false. The moon is solid. Its surface

00:08:15.760 is rocky. The light it gives off is the light it reflects from the sun. It does not create its own

00:08:19.840 light. This is a very basic fact about our solar system that every child by first grade should

00:08:26.040 understand. If my 10-year-old thought that the moon was made of gas, I would be concerned. If I heard my

00:08:32.560 10-year-old say that, I'd say, what? You're 10. You think that? I would assume, well, I failed as a

00:08:38.460 parent. It would be a disturbing level of ignorance for a 10-year-old, for a 74-year-old congresswoman.

00:08:44.920 It is horrifying, not to mention baffling. I truly have no idea how you can live through seven and a

00:08:50.940 half decades and never encounter even the most basic facts about the moon. I mean, this is like if a

00:08:57.720 74-year-old woman declared that the Pacific Ocean is made of chocolate syrup. Okay, it's not just that

00:09:05.680 the belief is wildly off base. It's that it would seem impossible to maintain such an outrageous

00:09:11.200 misconception for that many years. Like, think about how many times that must have come up in

00:09:17.200 conversation through the years to people who didn't correct you. Yet, that apparently is what

00:09:24.420 has happened here. Later that day, Lee responded to the mockery over these comments. She said this,

00:09:29.380 quote, obviously, I misspoke and meant to say the sun. But as usual, Republicans are focused on stupid 1.00

00:09:34.800 things instead of stuff that really matters. What can I say, though? Foolish thinkers lust for stupidity. 1.00

00:09:43.080 Now, look, once again, and I don't mean to get hung up on the minutia, but we have a statement here 1.00

00:09:48.820 that makes no sense and means nothing. Foolish thinkers lust for stupidity. What? What is that? 1.00

00:09:55.840 It sounds like the kind of thing you see on like a fortune cookie is because someone doesn't speak

00:10:00.120 English thought it sounded profound. You know, something was lost in translation. What does that

00:10:05.940 mean? It doesn't mean anything. She just she thinks it sounds insightful. So she said it because she is

00:10:12.020 quite literally dumber than a grasshopper. And she claims that she was really talking about the sun, 1.00

00:10:17.220 which is the worst excuse she could have possibly offered. If anybody on her team was at least

00:10:22.240 slightly more intelligent than her, because that's the other thing, by the way, that you have to 1.00

00:10:26.420 understand, like this stupidity, it's not just her. Her whole team, apparently, is this stupid. That's 1.00

00:10:30.280 why they posted this video on her Twitter page. And no one thought that there's a problem here.

00:10:37.520 So if anyone on her team was a little bit more intelligent, they would have suggested

00:10:40.760 that she tried to claim that she was referring to the moon's atmosphere when she referenced

00:10:47.120 its gases. Now, the moon does have a very thin atmosphere made up of helium, methane, and other

00:10:51.940 gases. It would be a hell of a stretch to try to spin it that way. And obviously, it still wouldn't

00:10:56.300 be true that the moon is made up of gases. But at least that would be a somewhat workable excuse,

00:11:02.700 maybe. Instead, she comes up with the least plausible cover story she possibly can. So let's go back and

00:11:08.180 see what her statement would sound like if you swap in the word sun for moon. It would be like this.

00:11:13.400 A full sun is a complete rounded circle, which is made up mostly of gases. The question is,

00:11:18.500 how could we live on the sun? Are the gases such that we could do that? The sun is a mighty powerful

00:11:23.320 heat. It's almost impossible to go near the sun. The sun is more manageable. And you will see in a

00:11:28.820 moment, well, not a moment, but in a couple of years, that NASA is going back to the sun.

00:11:33.920 To be clear, that's what she's claiming she meant to say. So the spin that this ignoramus came up with 0.92

00:11:40.900 is that she didn't mean to say that stupid thing. She actually meant to say something even stupider. 1.00

00:11:48.020 So now we have a choice. Either Sheila Jackson Lee thinks that the moon is made up of gases, 0.98

00:11:52.840 or she thinks that we can live on the sun and that NASA in a couple of years will be visiting

00:11:59.120 the sun, or rather going back to it because they've already visited once. So pick your poison.

00:12:04.960 And keep in mind, what you just heard there was only a 45-second clip of remarks that went on for

00:12:11.920 more than five minutes. And believe it or not, it actually gets worse. Watch.

00:12:19.860 What you will see today will be the closest distance that the moon has ever been in the last 20 years,

00:12:29.300 which means that's why they will shut the light down, because they will be close to the Earth,

00:12:36.820 which is an amazing experience. And what we are supposed to experience,

00:12:40.660 and I'm hoping we can, complete darkness. 0.92

00:12:44.500 Okay, now I can't be sure what exactly this lunatic is babbling about, but

00:12:48.620 she seems to be confusing an eclipse with a supermoon. The latter occurs when a full moon coincides with 0.67

00:12:53.580 the moon's closest approach to Earth, which is something that happens not once every 20 years,

00:12:57.580 but a few times every year. And as for the statement that they will shut the light down,

00:13:02.180 I honestly have no idea what that's even supposed to mean. Like, who is they? They? They will shut the

00:13:08.660 light down? Does she think there are people living on the moon who manually control how much light comes

00:13:15.620 from the sun? In my entire life, I've never heard anyone refer to the moon as a they.

00:13:22.740 Like, what have you ever heard anyone point to the moon and go, oh, look at them?

00:13:26.000 Does she think the moon is non-binary? We can't be sure. But she keeps going. Listen. 1.00

00:13:32.200 The one impact I want you to have is how you are controlled by something outside of your human

00:13:39.500 experience. That the solar system is bigger than us, though there are solar systems and there are

00:13:49.120 systems that are smaller than the Earth. Still, we are in a solar system and we depend on the Earth,

00:13:56.320 the moon and the sun. That is our existence. That is what creates our desire for creativity,

00:14:04.960 our music, our weather, our rain, our snow, our cold, our heat. That's solar system working.

00:14:16.500 The moon and sun create our music, she says. I mean, that's obviously asinine, but it's the 0.79

00:14:25.820 closest thing she gets to resembling like a coherent thought. And the problem is that right 0.95

00:14:31.720 before that, she claims that there are solar systems smaller than the Earth. That would mean

00:14:36.100 that somewhere in the universe there is a star that together with its planets orbiting it is smaller than

00:14:41.860 the Earth itself. And so small, in fact, that the orbit of the planets around it is no greater than

00:14:47.660 the diameter of the Earth. Now, for the record, there is no evidence that anything like that exists

00:14:51.980 anywhere in the universe, but it does exist in Sheila Jackson Lee's imagination, a place where the moon

00:14:56.780 is not only made up of gases, but is also, of course, a planet. We have yet to know whether you can live on

00:15:03.800 the moon, but I don't know about you. I want to be first in line to know how to live and to be able to

00:15:09.760 survive on the moon. That's another planet, which you're going to see shortly.

00:15:15.920 Yes, Sheila, I want you to be first in line, too. I very much want you to be first in line. Now,

00:15:21.000 now it's probably a good time to tell you that this woman graduated from Yale. She is a Yale graduate,

00:15:27.420 a prominent congresswoman, a former member of multiple science committees, yet she can't even 1.00

00:15:33.780 bull her way through a five-minute presentation about the eclipse to a bunch of public school kids

00:15:38.880 without diving headfirst into the most bizarre science fiction anyone has ever heard. This is like

00:15:45.980 what would happen to me if I woke up one day and suddenly found myself standing in front of some

00:15:49.820 sort of conference of mathematicians expected to give a presentation about calculus, except that I

00:15:55.800 could probably get out at least one or two sentences before it becomes painfully obvious that I haven't

00:16:00.120 the slightest clue what I'm talking about. And also, that's calculus. In Sheila Jackson Lee's case,

00:16:05.480 she was asked to speak at a grade school level about the moon, and she couldn't do it.

00:16:12.000 Now, fortunately, she did fact check herself during her remarks, 0.61

00:16:15.200 checking with someone to make sure that her science was accurate. Watch.

00:16:19.900 And Dr. Simmons, I didn't go too far away from the scientific explanation. Is that correct,

00:16:24.200 hopefully? All right, so I was near it.

00:16:27.840 She was near it. Yeah, she was about as near as the Earth is to Pluto, which, according to Sheila

00:16:33.920 Jackson Lee, is probably about 14 and a half miles or so. And my only regret is that they didn't pan

00:16:40.020 to Dr. Simmons to get her, I mean, to get her, you know, look being put on the spot there. 0.99

00:16:47.060 You know, the moon is a gaseous entity, and inside it grows strawberries and unicorns.

00:16:52.480 Dr. Simmons, I'm pretty close on the science, right? Not too far? Yeah, pretty close?

00:16:58.360 Now, there's no reason to belabor the point any more than I already have. The point is that this

00:17:02.120 woman quite literally could not pass a first grade science exam, and yet she is a member of the Party

00:17:07.340 of Science and has been a prominent congresswoman in that party for 30 years. Unless you think that

00:17:13.880 perhaps this woman has not always been this stupid, perhaps she's just another member of our ruling 1.00

00:17:18.300 class who is suffering from dementia or some other form of brain damage. Consider that way back in 1.00

00:17:25.820 1997, it was reported that this same congresswoman, then a member of the House Committee on Science,

00:17:32.580 visited the Mars Pathfinder Operations Center in Pasadena, California, and asked, reportedly,

00:17:38.780 whether the pathfinder on Mars had been able to find the flag planted there by Neil Armstrong.

00:17:44.420 This question was not caught on camera. So after it was reported, Sheila Jackson Lee's office,

00:17:51.300 of course, denied it, and also, of course, accused the journalist of racism. But now we know,

00:17:56.960 all these years later, that believing we visited and planted a flag on Mars is actually the least 0.99

00:18:02.800 idiotic misconception this woman has about our solar system. So we are ruled by morons, by people 1.00

00:18:10.580 who should not be trusted to walk across the room holding a pair of scissors, people who probably 1.00

00:18:16.760 have to wear Velcro shoes so they aren't caught on camera struggling to tie them. These are the people

00:18:23.360 running the country. The good news is that maybe we can convince them to board a rocket ship and take

00:18:31.200 a trip to visit the sun. I hear it's nice this time of year, and that would certainly solve a lot of

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00:19:48.220 unveiled a sweeping new plan Monday aimed at erasing or lowering student loan debt for more than 30

00:19:52.820 million people. The second attempt to offer a widespread forgiveness after the Supreme Court blocked

00:19:57.620 the administration's inaugural program last summer. The proposal would cancel up to $20,000 in interest for more

00:20:02.800 than 25 million people who owe more than they originally borrowed, regardless of income. Those enrolled in

00:20:08.500 the savings on a valuable education repayment plan and other income-driven repayment plans will be eligible to

00:20:13.980 have the entire amount their balance has grown since entering repayment forgiven, including single borrowers

00:20:18.360 earning $120,000 or less and married borrowers earning $240,000 or less. Debt would automatically be

00:20:25.360 forgiven for eligible borrowers who have not applied for relief due to their paperwork requirements,

00:20:29.260 bad advice, or other obstacles. So the Biden administration is trying this again as a way to

00:20:35.660 buy votes as we head into the election. The key phrase here, I think, is regardless of income.

00:20:41.940 So this is the clearest admission that we've seen yet, that the student loan forgiveness is welfare for

00:20:46.780 the upper class, which of course is what it's always been. But when you hear regardless of income,

00:20:51.140 they aren't even pretending that it's targeting disadvantaged people or whatever. This is being

00:20:56.520 done for a group of people, college graduates, who earn more on average than most of the people who

00:21:01.060 will be forced to foot this bill. Student loan forgiveness means that a car mechanic will have

00:21:07.280 to chip in to pay off the loans of a heart surgeon, okay? And that's what it means. And it's just a moral

00:21:13.480 abomination, obviously. But don't worry. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was on with Stephen Colbert last 0.93

00:21:21.080 night for whatever reason. And she says it's all worth it. You know, she says that having your money

00:21:25.620 stolen and given to college graduates to pay off their loans that they took out and that you had

00:21:30.820 nothing to do with, it's all good. Because it means that those college graduates can take more

00:21:36.940 vacations. Listen.

00:21:38.540 Are you one of the people who will benefit from this program?

00:21:42.620 Now, I don't think I will be. Actually, I'm going to be one of the few that doesn't. I'm a member of

00:21:47.620 Congress. I'm a little bit outside the threshold and bounds. But if I wasn't, you know, just a few

00:21:54.380 years ago, waitress me five years ago would have benefited from it. Congresswoman me will not. But 0.91

00:22:01.300 that's okay. I'll take the knock if it means that people can get relief. And, you know, this is huge.

00:22:06.540 This is people getting the student loan forgiveness, their student loans canceled. It means

00:22:12.060 that, you know, it's hope to buy a house or have a kid or travel abroad or maybe even go back to

00:22:20.580 school and, you know, pursue a career that maybe they otherwise wouldn't have. I mean, one of the

00:22:26.820 reasons that's not me now is because I didn't feel like I'd be able to afford medical school.

00:22:31.220 And and so hopefully someone else who's at an ISEF competition somewhere will be able to do that

00:22:40.240 because of this. So yeah, go back to school, go take out more loans. You just got your loans

00:22:45.620 forgiven. So what should you do with that with that freedom? Go take on more loans. Well, I lost my

00:22:53.620 loans. I might as well get some more. I lost my debt. Let me let me immediately go take on more

00:22:57.980 debt. It's a great idea. Well, you know, I don't know about you, but I take solace in this. At least

00:23:04.160 my money is being stolen so that college grads can travel abroad. That's comforting, isn't it? It's a

00:23:09.960 very comforting thought. I feel good about that. So while you're struggling to feed your family and,

00:23:14.760 you know, pay your mortgage and pay all kinds of debt that no one is going to forgive,

00:23:20.800 just know that the food that's being taken out of your children's mouths is being taken so that

00:23:26.320 somewhere out there, somewhere out there, a 27 year old gender studies major can take a life 1.00

00:23:32.180 changing trip to the Cayman Islands. And that should really, right? I mean, when you're explaining to

00:23:36.680 your kids, sorry, we can't afford new shoes, tax burden is too high, but don't worry. Think about

00:23:44.020 all the vacations other people are taking. Real relief. And look, I say this and I always make these

00:23:53.960 points whenever student loan forgiveness comes up. Um, and I say this, even though I don't dispute

00:24:03.760 that a lot of these college grads are in a, are in a really tough spot. And I would even say an unfair

00:24:09.320 spot in, in many, if not, not all, but in many cases, um, because there are plenty of college

00:24:18.920 graduates that are, that are, are deep in debt because of loans, uh, that were taken out because

00:24:25.620 of, because of, you know, agreements that they made when they were like 18 years old and had no

00:24:31.680 idea what they were doing. And it was all on a false promise and they were scammed. And I get all

00:24:37.900 that. I don't deny any of that. I think that's, I think that's absolutely true. But the problem is

00:24:43.980 always is that if you're in an unfair, if, if, if we, for the sake of argument would agree that it's

00:24:53.100 unfair that you have these loans that you did take out and you may, you didn't know what you were doing

00:24:59.060 maybe. And, and I, and I agree 18 years old, you know, make, making a financial commitment like that

00:25:04.920 it's absurd. Um, but even if we could agree that, yeah, well that, that sucks. That's unfair. 0.97

00:25:13.420 It's a lot less fair to make someone who didn't take the loan out, pay it back.

00:25:20.260 So if it's unfair that you have to pay it back as the person who took out the loan,

00:25:26.300 how would it be more fair for someone who didn't take it out to pay it back? That that's just,

00:25:31.580 that's heaping unfairness on top of unfairness. So that cannot be the solution. Um, even though

00:25:40.860 we acknowledge that the whole thing's a scam, the university system is a giant scam and these are 0.99

00:25:45.140 the suckers who fell for it. Uh, and I, you know, and I, and I feel for a lot of them, my objection is 0.94

00:25:51.180 to making taxpayers, making you and me who are not involved responsible, even though we're not

00:25:57.400 responsible, uh, making us pay the penalty for something we have nothing to do with.

00:26:03.180 Now, what we should do, you know, if we want to really make it right, what we should be talking

00:26:07.380 about as others have suggested, including a Will Chamberlain and others have, have talked about

00:26:11.640 this for years that, you know, if you want to talk about seizing the university endowments

00:26:15.640 and using those to pay off student loans, well, you know, now we're talking because many of these

00:26:21.320 universities are sitting on millions, in some cases, billions of dollars. These are extremely

00:26:27.860 wealthy institutions that have millions. And again, in some cases, billions of dollars.

00:26:34.840 And, uh, and these are the institutions running the scam.

00:26:40.320 Like, and so they should be forced to pay if that money has to come by force. If we have to go in by

00:26:46.760 force, which is what a student loan forgiveness plan does, you got to come in by force and take money

00:26:50.900 from somebody to pay off these loans. Why would you not take it from the universities? They're the,

00:26:55.760 it's, it's their fault. They're the ones running the, they are the scam artists. Why would they not 0.98

00:27:01.480 be the ones forced to pay it back? So that to me is obviously the right approach, which is why it

00:27:07.440 won't happen. Uh, it'll never happen. And, you know, very few of our political leaders would have

00:27:13.600 the guts to, to even propose something like that, uh, which means that it won't happen.

00:27:21.640 You know, now, now you, you could, if we lived in a sane country and we were having a conversation

00:27:26.480 like this, uh, now you could make the argument that, Hey, if we're going to go in and seize

00:27:32.380 the endowments and we're going to take, uh, we're going to go into these, these, these scam

00:27:36.920 institutions and take their money, that's exactly what should happen. Well, the money shouldn't go to

00:27:43.460 college graduates. It should go somewhere else. There's a lot of things we could force them to pay for. 0.99

00:27:48.800 Uh, and, and, you know, there's an argument there, but that, that's, that's a conversation

00:27:53.640 I would love to have. I'd love to have the conversation like, Hey, we're going in and

00:27:57.000 taking them. The, the, these scam artist institutions are going to pay because this

00:28:01.780 is insane that this has happened, that we've allowed them to bankrupt generations of Americans

00:28:06.040 with a worthless, a college education that, that only gets more and more worthless by the

00:28:12.200 day. You know, these institutions that exist at this point, many of them solely as, as, uh,

00:28:18.740 as vehicles of, of ideological indoctrination. They're not even interested in providing anything

00:28:25.360 resembling, you know, a worthwhile, real, well-rounded education. And this is, this has been

00:28:32.560 happening for decades now and, and, and they pay no price for it. It's crazy. So if we could all

00:28:37.860 agree on that and say, well, they're going to, they got to pay, but you know, we're taking all

00:28:43.700 this money. We're going to have billions of dollars. What do we want to do with it? That, that,

00:28:46.600 that's a good conversation. That's a conversation we should be having.

00:28:48.560 All right. Daily Mail has this report says, uh, Scotland's police force has solved fewer

00:28:54.940 shoplifting theft and assault crimes in recent years. Figures suggest as frontline representatives

00:28:59.640 say officers are being overwhelmed by reports made under the country's new hate crime law.

00:29:04.840 David Threadgold, chairman of the Scottish police Federation says police Scotland's vow to investigate

00:29:10.360 every report of hate crime has created a simply unmanageable situation with around 8,000 filed in the

00:29:16.880 first week. Analysis of more than a decade of crime statistics has suggested fewer thefts,

00:29:21.420 assaults, and shoplifting cases are being solved by officers. Police Scotland says that it's coping

00:29:26.220 with the additional demand created by the hate crime law. Um, many of the early reports related

00:29:31.800 to tweets made by JK Rowling. Um, and so that's what a lot of these reports are coming in now.

00:29:39.560 And they're being overwhelmed and it's, it's become, you know, they, they just instated this hate

00:29:45.000 crime law and it's already unmanageable, even according to law enforcement in Scotland.

00:29:49.860 And all I have to say about that is good. Fantastic. I mean, that is exactly what needs to happen.

00:29:56.280 And if you live in Scotland, just flood the lines with hate speech complaints,

00:30:01.540 file a hundred hate speech complaints every day, overwhelm the system until it becomes totally

00:30:06.500 unsustainable. Uh, if that's, if that's what they want, then give it to them. And, and anything

00:30:12.420 could be hate speech. Keep in mind, you know, anytime anyone says anything that makes you feel

00:30:16.580 bad, call it in, call it in. Uh, they can't charge you with a false police report because it's not

00:30:22.060 false. If you're reporting it based on how you feel, this is about your truth. It's about your

00:30:26.840 feelings. That's how the law is written. Remember the, the legality or illegality of an act now,

00:30:31.540 or a statement in Scotland is determined by the feelings of the person who hears or witnesses

00:30:37.860 the actor statement. So if you say something that a quote unquote reasonable person could consider

00:30:45.400 to be threatening or abusive, that's the language in the law, then, uh, then it's illegal. You can

00:30:49.520 call it in, you know, and, and, and, uh, on the flip side, if you consider yourself to be reasonable

00:30:54.520 and you feel abused by something that somebody said, call it in, file the report. Now, naturally,

00:31:00.040 of course, uh, you should only do this to leftists who support the law and they should celebrate you

00:31:05.900 doing it because this is what they wanted. And so any, you know, I wouldn't call in any reports

00:31:11.320 on your fellow members of team sanity. However, few of them may exist in Scotland, but, um, Hey,

00:31:17.260 if I lived in Scotland and, uh, anytime I encountered a leftist and they did anything at

00:31:21.840 all to make me sad, call it in right away, report all of them every single time. Um, and again,

00:31:27.140 it's what they want. It's what they want. They should be, they should be happy. They, they,

00:31:29.880 they should, they should celebrate that. They should congratulate you, right? Cause you're

00:31:33.920 taking hate speech seriously. And to be clear, I'm not encouraging anyone to file a false police

00:31:39.120 report. I would never do that. That'd be a serious and unethical, uh, and probably illegal thing for

00:31:44.420 me to do. And so I'm not doing that. I just want to be very clear. I'm not saying, absolutely. I

00:31:48.240 wouldn't condone any false police reports of any kind. Do not do that. Um, I'm not saying anyone

00:31:53.540 should falsely report anything. All I'm saying is that the law now allows you to file a report

00:31:58.180 when someone makes you feel sad, right? When someone makes you, someone makes you feel,

00:32:02.600 you know, you feel abused by what they said. That's what the law allows. And so,

00:32:06.380 and I encourage you to take full advantage of it. Uh, cause hate speech, you know, it's a big

00:32:11.340 problem. It's a big problem in Scotland. And, uh, and they, they want to know all about it. They

00:32:15.300 want, this is what, this is the only thing that they care about now. It's the only thing that they,

00:32:18.720 I mean, this is what they've signed up for with their law, because once you allow people to call in

00:32:22.500 stuff like this and you treat this like a crime, you treat, you know, mean words as a, as an actual

00:32:27.520 criminal act. Well, there's a lot of mean words out there and even more words that aren't mean,

00:32:34.840 but be, could be construed as such. And so the moment you pass this law, what you are saying is

00:32:40.180 that, okay, our entire law enforcement apparatus from henceforth will be solely focused on this

00:32:47.240 because there won't be any other time for anything else. That's what they want. And, uh, and so again,

00:32:53.160 give them, give them what they want. That's what you should do. Uh, the Post Millennial has this

00:32:59.880 report. The parents of school shooter in Michigan, Ethan Crumbly, have been jailed after being convicted

00:33:04.460 of manslaughter. Ethan is serving life in prison for murder after he killed four students at Oxford

00:33:07.900 High School in Michigan in November, 2021. Ethan was 15 at the time. Ethan's mother, Jennifer,

00:33:13.240 and his father, James, uh, 45 and 47, are now both going to prison for manslaughter. Each of

00:33:19.960 Ethan's parents are serving 10 to 15 years for the charges. Uh, this was the sentence passed down

00:33:24.780 yesterday. Here is the judge passing down the sentence. Let's watch. Each of the defendant's

00:33:30.180 gross negligence has caused unimaginable suffering to hundreds of others as a result of what happened

00:33:36.820 that day. Each act or inaction created a ripple effect. Therefore, an out of guidelines sentence is

00:33:45.500 appropriate and proportional. The court uses the useful tool of the legislative guidelines,

00:33:51.600 which embody the principles of proportionality, while also taking into account the nature of the

00:33:57.140 offense and the background of each defendant. I believe that the following sentences would be

00:34:02.500 in the best interest of justice and are reasonable and proportionate to the seriousness of the matter

00:34:08.380 and the circumstances surrounding each defendant. With regard to Jennifer Crumley,

00:34:16.480 it is the sentence of this court, Ms. Crumley, that you serve 10 to 15 years with the Michigan

00:34:21.120 Department of Corrections. You will have credit for 858 days. State costs are $272.00, as crime

00:34:28.560 victims' rights fee of $130.00. Um, you and your agents may not have any contact with the families

00:34:36.580 of Madison Baldwin, Tate Meir, Hannah St. Juliana, and Justin Schilling. Um, I will issue another ruling

00:34:44.680 with regard to contact, um, with your son, the shooter. Excuse me. As to defendant James Crumley,

00:34:54.480 it is the sentence of this court that you serve 10 to 15 years with the Michigan Department of Corrections,

00:35:00.880 that you receive credit for 858 days, that you pay state costs in the matter of, uh, $272.00,

00:35:08.940 that there is a crime victim's rights fee of $130, that you or your agents have no contact with the

00:35:15.700 families of Madison Baldwin, Tate Meir, Hannah St. Juliana. So, uh, 10 to 15 years they're both getting

00:35:22.920 for, uh, their sentence for the crimes. And this is apparently, as she says, an out-of-guideline

00:35:29.820 sentence. So, this is, uh, this is going beyond what the sentencing guidelines would, uh, call for.

00:35:37.140 Um, and she's throwing the book. She's, so she's throwing more than the book at them. Uh, she's, 0.99

00:35:42.400 she's giving them as much prison time as she possibly can. Um, and this is the kind of

00:35:49.200 very severe, rigid application of justice that we rarely ever see.

00:35:57.460 Many, many occasions when we would love to see something like this. Um, and we don't.

00:36:04.960 Many, many violent scumbags, uh, chronically violent scumbags who are, you know, commit crimes 0.99

00:36:12.640 and then they're released from prison, committed again, released from prison, committed again, 0.99

00:36:15.660 and, and, and do horrible things, do horrible things directly to other people. You know, not

00:36:20.300 that we're blaming them for, uh, things that other people have done that they were supposed to

00:36:23.840 prevent or have seen coming, but, but people who do things themselves that don't get this kind of

00:36:31.020 treatment, don't get 10 to 15 years of prison. Um, do, you know, that, that oftentimes the judges

00:36:37.020 will go the other way. They'll, they'll do everything in their power to give the lightest

00:36:40.340 sentence they possibly can. And that's not what's happening here. Um, and you know, we talked about,

00:36:47.960 I, I, I, I've made my point about this case. I think that you, you know, my argument, um, uh,

00:36:53.740 I think that the precedent being set here is incredibly dangerous. Um, and what makes it the

00:37:03.340 most dangerous is how arbitrary it is, how incredibly arbitrary this is because

00:37:11.620 essentially they're going to prison for being bad parents. That that's basically the charge really.

00:37:19.600 I mean, that might not be what it says on the charging documents, but that's, that is the

00:37:22.980 charge that they are bad parents and that if they had been better parents, this would not have happened

00:37:27.100 because nobody is claiming that they were involved in, in, you know, in any way coordinating this,

00:37:34.900 this terrible crime that was committed. No one's claiming that they were, were actively involved

00:37:41.020 in committing it, that they wanted their son to do it, or they told their son to do it,

00:37:44.700 or they planned it with them or anything like that. Now, if any of that was the case,

00:37:47.920 then there's nothing to talk about. Of course, throw them in jail forever, um, at a minimum.

00:37:53.580 But in this case, no one is claiming that. I think it's, it's widely agreed that they,

00:38:00.200 you know, they didn't, they didn't want their son to go shoot up a school. 1.00

00:38:03.000 But the problem is that as parents, they were so negligent and so stupid and so absent sort of, 1.00

00:38:12.360 uh, at least from kind of morally absent as parents that it allowed this to happen. 1.00

00:38:18.660 And they were reckless as parents as well. And all of that is true.

00:38:23.000 So I'm not defending their parenting skills at all. You know, if you want to claim that they're

00:38:33.280 really bad parents, a hundred percent agree. If you want to say that this wouldn't have happened

00:38:39.720 if they were better parents, again, that's pronounced, we can't really, that's a hypothetical.

00:38:46.280 We can't know for sure. It's possible that you could have really good parents who do everything

00:38:51.260 they can. And yet their kid still ends up being a murderous scumbag. It's very unlikely, 1.00

00:38:56.360 but we can't say it's impossible because human beings are their own, you know, are, are, uh,

00:39:02.020 have their own minds and they can make their own decisions. And sometimes as a parent, no matter what

00:39:07.320 you do, your, your child will end up making really, really horrible decisions that can happen. But

00:39:12.340 most likely if you do your job as a parent, um, or if you even get close to doing your job,

00:39:19.540 if you even just try, you put a little bit of an effort in as a parent, your kid will not end up

00:39:24.020 being a school shooter. Okay. Like at least it won't get that bad. So all that is, all that is

00:39:29.720 true. Uh, the issue of course, is that that is also true of almost every violent criminal in the

00:39:39.320 country. Like almost every violent criminal in the country, almost every violent felon in a prison

00:39:45.180 right now, almost every violent felon who is not in a prison, but should be right now. All of them

00:39:49.600 have parents who almost all of them have parents negligent, irresponsible, uh, totally failed,

00:40:00.320 either completely physically absent or at least morally absent or a combination of the two.

00:40:06.300 A lot of these violent criminals, it's, it is a combination because they've got fathers who,

00:40:09.940 uh, abandoned them from the start. And they've got mothers who just were not interested in raising 1.00

00:40:14.080 their kids at all. And, and, you know, if, if any of that had been different, father stays home,

00:40:21.500 the mother puts a little bit of effort into actually being a mother, then these kids would 1.00

00:40:25.280 not end up being violent criminals. So the same logic applies.

00:40:31.480 Okay. You take any, just any random, uh, what's the most, the most recent, uh, case of, of someone

00:40:38.420 robbing a liquor store and shooting, you know, it's like a violent crime committed in the, in the

00:40:43.280 process of, you know, a murder committed in the process of a, of a robbery. Let's say someone's

00:40:48.100 knocking over a liquor store, shoots the clerk, a gas station, whatever. And someone's get mugs on a,

00:40:52.360 mugged on a street corner and shot. These kinds of things happen all the time.

00:40:56.980 And you just take the most recent case of that. It probably happened somewhere in the country

00:41:00.440 yesterday. And whoever it was who committed that crime without even knowing, we're speaking totally

00:41:06.380 in hypotheticals now, but whoever that person is, we know for almost certain fact that they have a

00:41:13.080 father who was not at home and they have a mother who's just terrible. Mother's probably on drugs, 1.00

00:41:18.480 is not interested in the kid, not doing anything to raise the kid.

00:41:23.580 Are those parents going to be charged with a crime? They won't. They never are.

00:41:27.360 So we selected these parents in particular. These are the only ones we have held. This is a legal

00:41:35.540 standard that we've created and held only these parents to it. And so that is the real dangerous

00:41:48.380 precedent being set. It's not even so much that we, that we, we might one day live in a country now

00:41:54.940 where, uh, anytime someone commits a violent crime, their parents automatically end up going to

00:42:00.900 prison too. Yeah. Uh, that would be bad if that were to happen, but that's not going to happen.

00:42:08.320 What's more likely is that now that this can of worms has been opened, right? Um, well now,

00:42:16.120 no, it's not that it's going to be consistently happened to every parent,

00:42:19.280 but now this gives the judicial system a tool that they can decide when they want to use it.

00:42:25.960 Now they have that option. And if they decide for whatever reason that in this particular case,

00:42:31.040 that these are the kinds of parents they would like to put in prison too, then they can.

00:42:36.800 And by the way, when we say kinds of parents, they want to put in prison and kinds of parents,

00:42:40.280 they don't like, let's not beat around the bush. Part, part of the story here is that these parents

00:42:45.300 are white. That's just a fact. A lot of these, a lot of these violent criminals with really terrible 0.77

00:42:50.480 parents and are, you know, in our cities across the country have black parents. It's just, you're, 0.99

00:42:55.700 you're not going to see that standard held in that case. And I think it's, it's almost certainly the

00:43:01.700 case. That's not almost certainly the case. We know it's the case that you take Ethan Crumbly.

00:43:07.620 What did he do? He shot and killed four people, terrible crime. Uh, he should be executed for it,

00:43:12.160 but you take that, you, you, you make him Ethan Crumbly, but he's black. And maybe rather than 0.99

00:43:18.320 committing that mass shooting, uh, on a, on a, uh, in a school, he commits it on a street corner.

00:43:26.060 There's just a 0% chance that the legal system goes after his parents too. And we know that there's

00:43:32.720 a 0% chance that the legal system goes after his parents because there have been thousands of Ethan

00:43:38.360 Crumbly's doing things like that in our cities. And the legal system has never gone after any of

00:43:43.320 their parents, not even once. And so this is a, that, that is, that's the precedent being said.

00:43:52.620 And so it's, you know, I see a lot of very foolish people applauding this. 0.98

00:43:58.660 That's a good thing. We're finally holding parents accountable. You think that's actually what's 0.98

00:44:04.420 happening? No, we're not holding parents accountable. We're holding these parents in

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00:45:17.000 Hillsdale.edu slash Walsh. So a few comments pointing to what they see as inconsistencies in my pro-life

00:45:23.320 position. First one says, so your argument is, if a three-month pregnancy is endangering the life of

00:45:28.380 the mother, it's better to let the mother die, thereby also killing the unborn baby, than aborting 0.92

00:45:33.020 the baby to save the mother's life. Two deaths is better than one, so you can feel morally superior. 0.57

00:45:41.380 Matt, you just spent a big chunk of your show arguing that you have the right to defend yourself. 0.95

00:45:45.740 Why shouldn't you be able to kill a fetus that threatens your life? 0.82

00:45:48.500 And finally, in this episode, you make the case against capital punishment. You'll reply,

00:45:53.840 well, these people lost their right to life when they committed whatever crime.

00:45:57.360 But as you argue here, who are you to make that call? Sanctity of human life is absolute,

00:46:01.520 or it isn't. Which is it? All right, well, these are all similar sorts of arguments and objections,

00:46:07.840 so let me answer the last question, which I think answers all of them. Sanctity of life is absolute.

00:46:14.420 Yes, life is sacred. And when I say it's absolute, I mean in the sense that it's inherent.

00:46:22.340 It's given to us by God. Human life itself is given to us by God. It's created by God,

00:46:27.080 and so therefore it is, by definition, sacred. So that is true. However, the right to life

00:46:36.080 is not absolute. You do not have the absolute right to continue living no matter what you do.

00:46:43.060 You don't have any absolute rights. You can lose any of your rights. Of course you can.

00:46:50.480 The simple fact of putting you in prison already removes most of your rights.

00:46:57.380 Most of your rights are out the window when you're in prison.

00:47:01.720 Right? Right against, you know, the freedom from unreasonable search and seizure. Well,

00:47:07.060 that doesn't mean, that doesn't apply in prison. They can search you anytime they want. You have no

00:47:11.640 property. You have no privacy. You really, you don't have free speech. You don't have the right

00:47:15.800 to assembly. You know, you don't have, most of your rights go out the window. Along with just your

00:47:21.520 basic right to be free and kind of go where you want and have freedom of movement. Like all of that

00:47:27.220 goes out the window. And so the very fact that we have prisons, for example, already tells us that

00:47:32.720 that at least many of our rights are, uh, can be lost. And if none of them could be lost, then we

00:47:39.380 couldn't have prisons. Uh, we couldn't have any kind of justice system at all. And then you would

00:47:43.040 have, of course, total anarchy. And then the result of anarchy is that then your rights are lost by

00:47:48.600 another means. Um, so the same goes for the right to life. Like, of course you can lose your right to

00:47:56.720 life. That's not absolute. So, and there are obvious examples of this that I think, I think

00:48:02.660 we would all agree with. If somebody comes into my house and points a gun at my head and I, I shoot 0.99

00:48:10.920 them to defend myself or defend my family and my children. Well, I think everyone who is not a 1.00

00:48:18.580 lunatic would agree that I have the right to do that. Of course I do. Um, and I have not deprived them

00:48:24.320 of their rights in doing so. They didn't have the right to come into my house. They didn't have the

00:48:28.420 right to point a gun at me. They didn't have a right to threaten my children. I have a right to

00:48:32.100 preserve my own life, which means in that case, because of their choices, I can take their life.

00:48:38.200 So that person by doing that has sacrificed, has forfeited his own right to live. And that's how

00:48:45.880 rights can be lost is if you choose by your actions to forfeit them. Now let's extend this

00:48:55.020 logic to unborn children. Well, we've already established that, that, that human life, if,

00:49:00.380 if anyone's life is sacred, then everyone's life is sacred.

00:49:05.220 Because if, if anyone's life is sacred, it means that human life is inherently sacred

00:49:08.540 because we're all created by God. And it's not like there are some of us created by God and some who

00:49:13.680 aren't like we all are. We all come from the same place in that sense. So, um, human life is sacred

00:49:20.260 for everyone. And if it's sacred for everyone, then it's sacred for unborn children as well.

00:49:25.880 And if we agree that the right to life is not absolute, it can be lost. And I think we all,

00:49:31.240 again, we all must agree on that. Unless you really think that you have, if someone comes in

00:49:35.380 your house and points a gun at your head, you have no right to shoot them. If you're not that extreme,

00:49:39.720 then you, then you would agree that, that the right to life can be lost. And it's just,

00:49:43.180 then it's just a question of, of how can it be lost? And my sort of theory here is that

00:49:49.520 it can only be lost by the actions that you can only choose. It's not that it's lost. Like you're

00:49:58.120 walking along one day, Oh, I've lost my right to life. Where did it go? You've, you've chosen to

00:50:02.660 forfeit it. You've, you've, you, the minute you, you know, you have that gun in your pocket and you

00:50:06.340 go into some break into somebody's house, meaning them harm, whether you are saying it to yourself in

00:50:10.740 your head or not, you have still chosen, okay, I'm, I'm going to put my right to life on hold right

00:50:15.060 now. I'm gonna put that off to the side because I'd rather do this instead. So that's my point

00:50:21.960 that you can, through your actions, you can lose it. But unborn children, what action have they 0.77

00:50:29.360 engaged in to lose their right to life? The action of what being conceived, that's not a choice that

00:50:37.500 they made. The unborn child didn't choose to be conceived. An unborn child is, is the only place

00:50:46.760 he can be doing the only thing he can be doing. Um, so that does not, it cannot apply to unborn 1.00

00:50:57.860 children. They can't lose the right because they can't choose to, they can't do anything to forfeit

00:51:01.740 that inherent or that, uh, that, that, although not absolute, still fundamental right.

00:51:06.780 So, you know, the question goes back to you, like how, what has an unborn child done to lose their

00:51:17.620 right to life? What have they done to deserve being killed? Maybe that's a, that's how I would

00:51:21.540 like to flip it around and ask you that. What have they done to deserve this? When the unborn child is

00:51:28.700 being ripped limb from limb and thrown into a dumpster like trash, what did they do to deserve that?

00:51:33.980 Okay. Don't tell me about anything else and things happening out in the world and all this.

00:51:40.320 No, no, no. That, what did they do? What did the child do?

00:51:46.360 And if your answer is, well, they didn't do anything to deserve it. Well, then, then I suppose my answer

00:51:51.180 is what, like you shouldn't, you should not commit an act of violence on someone. If you admit from the

00:51:57.680 start that they didn't do anything to deserve it. That is the definition of, of unjust. Is it

00:52:03.960 not? I mean, justice is to give to everyone what they deserve. You know, justice is, is to put

00:52:12.120 everything in its rightful place. Somebody commits a crime, the rightful place is prison. That's

00:52:17.180 justice. Someone does something bad, what they deserve is a punishment. You give it to them. That's

00:52:21.900 justice. Somebody doesn't commit a crime and you punish them for a crime they didn't commit.

00:52:26.640 That's not justice because they didn't deserve that. And so it would seem to me that, but that,

00:52:31.400 by definition, uh, killing an unborn child is, is always an act of injustice because they could

00:52:38.260 not have possibly done anything to deserve it. The, the murderer being executed absolutely did

00:52:45.340 something to deserve it on the other hand. And that is the difference. I'd say it's a pretty

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00:53:38.580 cancellation. Well, it's not every day that you're watching a funeral and out of nowhere, someone manages

00:53:48.760 to create a spectacle that's completely unrelated to the person who just died. Uh, you know, outside

00:53:53.440 of films like Zoolander, it's pretty uncommon, but it does happen from time to time in the real world.

00:53:58.680 And it's always kind of hard to watch what it does. You might remember that Barack Obama made, uh, the

00:54:02.920 late John Lewis and also ran at his own funeral a few years ago when he delivered a eulogy that ended

00:54:08.140 up being a political speech about police racism or something. It was pretty tacky. And at the time it

00:54:13.220 seemed hard to top, but last weekend for the first time in a while, we had a real contender, uh, for

00:54:18.380 the title of tackiest moment at a funeral. And this time it was in the world of entertainment instead

00:54:22.600 of politics. At the memorial service of her grandfather, the 15 year old daughter of Jennifer

00:54:27.160 Garner and Ben Affleck, for some reason decided to mark the occasion by publicly coming out as

00:54:31.660 transgender. Instead of using the name, uh, Serafina Rose, this girl made it clear that she will 0.96

00:54:37.740 henceforth use the more ambiguous name of Finn. And apparently she'll now be using they them

00:54:41.860 pronouns as well. So here's the first time that Finn Affleck announced her new identity

00:54:46.320 complete with a shaved head. Watch. Hello, my name is Finn Affleck. I'm reading verse eight

00:54:52.680 Proverbs chapter 16, verse eight. Better is a little with righteousness than large income

00:54:57.840 with injustice. Okay. The proverb about importance of righteousness is, you know, maybe a little

00:55:05.780 out of place here. Appearing at the funeral of your grandfather and generating a bunch of

00:55:09.760 tabloid articles about your alleged gender identity can be described as a lot of things,

00:55:14.360 uh, but probably not righteous being one of them. Now, of course the point here isn't to be

00:55:18.760 critical of this girl or what she said at the funeral. She's only 15. She doesn't know what

00:55:23.000 she's doing. Uh, this is where parents are supposed to step in and say, you know, it's not really the

00:55:27.300 time for this. Uh, you know, you don't need to date debut your new name at the grandfather's

00:55:31.700 funeral. She's confused. And she is herself, obviously another victim of the gender ideology 1.00

00:55:36.600 cult. Uh, and so deserves a lot of sympathy for that reason. And certainly has it for me.

00:55:41.780 The real story here is that Ben Affleck by some great scientific coincidence as being reported now

00:55:47.640 by many media articles now somehow has a non-binary kid in addition to a non-binary step kid. And of

00:55:55.800 course, non-binary being in scare quotes on both occasions. The Daily Mail reports that Ben Affleck's

00:56:00.380 current wife, Jennifer Lopez also has a 16 year old daughter named M who uses gender neutral

00:56:05.400 pronouns and has become close with Finn as a step-sibling. So we have two gender non-conforming

00:56:11.260 kids in the same family. What are the odds of that? As it happens, there's not a lot of data on this

00:56:17.780 because the categories are all completely made up obviously. But according to UCLA, something like

00:56:22.540 1.4% of youth between the ages of 13 and 17 now identify as transgender or non-binary. That's

00:56:28.760 approximately a, you know, I don't know, a zillion percent increase from a decade ago,

00:56:33.240 mathematically when nobody was transgender or non-binary, especially in that age group.

00:56:37.760 Also, according to UCLA, something like one third of transgender identifying people are

00:56:41.020 non-binary. So putting two and two together and fudging the numbers a bit, the odds of having a 0.64

00:56:45.680 child who identifies as non-binary is probably something like 0.5%. Again, these numbers are

00:56:51.020 almost certainly wrong because just like everything else in the gender space, there are no standards. 0.97

00:56:55.100 But for the sake of argument, we'll pretend the numbers are real for a second. And if the odds of

00:56:58.760 having one non-binary teenager are 0.5%, then the odds of independently having two non-binary teenagers

00:57:05.880 are very, very low. I mean, it's something like 0.002% or one in 40,000. If we're assuming that

00:57:14.920 transgenderism is a naturally occurring phenomenon, which it isn't, but that's what trans activists 0.95

00:57:20.560 demand, then Ben Affleck's situation is quite a statistical coincidence. But of course, again,

00:57:26.240 it's not a coincidence. Finn was obviously influenced by her gender non-conforming relative M. And of

00:57:33.680 course, both of them were influenced by the lifestyles of their celebrity parents. This is

00:57:37.720 a common phenomenon, which is why a huge number of Hollywood celebrities have children who identify

00:57:42.500 as trans or non-binary. So here's a very much non-exhaustive list of some celebrities who have

00:57:48.020 or previously had trans slash non-binary slash gender non-conforming kids, according to various

00:57:53.140 websites to track this kind of thing. There's Cher, Charlize Theron, Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union,

00:57:59.480 Jamie Lee Curtis, Cynthia Nixon, Sigourney Weaver, Marlon Wayans, Dean McDermott, Annette Bening and

00:58:05.200 Warren Beatty, Megan Fox, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Cindy Barshop, Adele, Gwen Stefani, Naomi Watts,

00:58:13.000 et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Now this is a striking list and it reveals a couple of things. First of all,

00:58:17.900 Hollywood celebrities often treat their kids like fashion accessories. If it's popular to have a trans 1.00

00:58:22.740 kid, then they all need to go out and get themselves a trans kid. And then they go on 0.99

00:58:26.640 television and talk about their children to advance their own public profiles as if that's

00:58:30.480 not an incredibly creepy thing to do. Now it's not true of all these celebrities, to be fair. They

00:58:34.000 haven't all done that, but it's pretty common. A couple of years ago, for example, Dwayne Wade went

00:58:37.520 on pretty much every television show in existence from Ellen to Good Morning America to talk about how

00:58:41.280 proud he was that his child had come out as trans. Like the child, quote unquote, came out as trans and

00:58:47.240 then immediately Dwayne Wade is on the interview circuit telling everyone in the world about it.

00:58:52.740 Which, by the way, even if you think that it's possible for a kid to be trans, which it isn't,

00:59:00.680 but even if you're in the camp where you think that that's a real thing, you should still understand

00:59:04.560 that there's no good reason for a parent to go and tell the entire world about it constantly.

00:59:13.400 Dwayne Wade told Robin Roberts at the time, quote, when I say we're learning from our 12-year-old,

00:59:18.040 we're literally learning from our child. He also said that he knew that his child was trans when he

00:59:23.240 was three years old. This is, in fact, the complete inversion of how parenting is supposed to work.

00:59:28.040 Obviously, parents are not supposed to learn from their three-year-old children. Like, I've never

00:59:33.060 learned anything from a three-year-old child. We've had several three-year-old children in the house

00:59:41.200 at various times, and I don't think they've ever taught me anything. But in Hollywood, you know,

00:59:47.020 it's celebrated. Of course, the fact that transgenderism is so much more common in Hollywood,

00:59:50.520 the pilot population, proves that it's a social trend and not a naturally occurring phenomenon.

00:59:56.340 When you gather a bunch of narcissists together, which is what Hollywood is,

00:59:59.560 then they produce children who desperately seek ways to seem different and unique and special.

01:00:05.180 Jennifer Lopez, for example, is notoriously one of the most narcissistic people in Hollywood. 1.00

01:00:09.040 I could show you about a million clips here, but I'll settle on this one,

01:00:12.500 where she laments the fact that she's not a more widely respected actress. Watch.

01:00:18.060 Some people are talented actors from the time they were very young,

01:00:21.580 and I was a good actress always. I can say that now to myself.

01:00:27.220 Many thought you should have been nominated for an Oscar. First of all, did you feel snubbed?

01:00:31.400 I was sad. I was sad. I was a little sad because there was a lot of buildup to it.

01:00:36.160 There was a lot of like, she's going to get nominated for an Oscar. It's going to happen.

01:00:40.540 If she doesn't, you're crazy. And I'm reading all the articles and I'm going, 0.99

01:00:44.520 oh my God, could this happen? And then it didn't. I was like, ouch.

01:00:51.100 Reading all the articles about herself, somehow that is not surprising.

01:00:56.160 Now, there's probably not a single person on this planet who can confidently say they've seen a

01:00:59.320 Jennifer Lopez movie and been truly amazed at her natural acting talent. First of all,

01:01:05.540 the number of people who've seen a Jennifer Lopez movie is obviously a very tiny subset of the

01:01:09.280 population. And then within that subset, it can't be that many people who didn't think to themselves,

01:01:14.320 why am I watching this terrible Lifetime movie? But to the extent that these people exist,

01:01:19.000 they're apparently all friends of Jennifer Lopez and they're convinced that she deserves an Oscar.

01:01:23.740 And they've convinced her of this fact as well. Now, not to dwell too much on Jennifer Lopez,

01:01:27.240 but she does this constantly. It's actually difficult to Google Jennifer Lopez and not 0.88

01:01:31.880 be reminded of how self-absorbed she is. For example, the Amazon description for her documentary

01:01:36.120 film, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, reads, quote, directed by Jason Berg, The Greatest Love

01:01:41.180 Story Never Told follows Jennifer Lopez as she attempts her most daring project yet, 0.69

01:01:45.780 independently producing a new album and cinematic original that explores her 20-year journey to

01:01:51.200 self-love. Her 20-year journey of being obsessed with herself.

01:01:57.240 We're supposed to believe it's an accident that someone this delusional, this committed to self-love

01:02:01.520 could possibly produce delusional children who want to express their self-love at someone else's

01:02:08.020 funeral. But it's not an accident. Transgenderism is a byproduct of extreme narcissism and disordered 1.00

01:02:14.660 thinking. Parents who are extreme narcissists will inevitably produce transgender children at a rate 1.00

01:02:21.540 that is impossible to explain away as random statistical variation. And that's precisely 0.78

01:02:26.680 what we're seeing now. And it is why celebrity parents who push their children into the cult of

01:02:32.060 transgenderism to the point of announcing it at a memorial service for their grandfather

01:02:37.820 are today canceled. That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening.

01:02:43.480 Have a great day. Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - April 10, 2024

Ep. 1344 - Member Of The ‘Party Of Science’ Doesn’t Know What The Moon Is

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